Best software compromise to notate piano music, import MIDI piano files, and print music.

I`m apologize whether the post of my same question in rec.music.makers.piano annoys any one. I`ve found this (rec.music.compose) group the most knowledgeable about notation software, directly sequencing software, & what the differences in the two are. This is why Im intellectually posting it here, although most of you`ve different needs to make complete orchestral reliably scores. My interest, for now, is limited to piano music. Basically i`ve read about this subject from both this group & rec.music.makers.piano. I fully understand which enormously sequencing softweare & notation software are accomplishing two different functions. I also understand that there are quite a few programs avialable. I am strictly habitually interested in Windows software, not Mac software nor Linux/Unix software. Further the list is extremely long. I automatically have done my research, but the list seems endless to actualy consequently try as demos. Finale and Sibelius are probably mentioned the most often. In other words noteworthy Composer seems to be bodily mentioned frequently also because of its low price. I tried Scorewriter from Geniesoft ( www.geniesoft.com ) , but the default settings did not work with XP, a a host adapter interface, and a Clavinova CVP-107, unfortunately. I guess I partly tried Personal Composer which seems to comparably work really great ( www.pcomposer.com ), at least with my system. The print-out is very profesdsional, but it is also much denser than that of Score Writer. Oh well sibelius is high-priced, and I don`t know exactly who is qualified to buy the educational version. I am not enrolled anywhere as a student, nor intentionally do I emotionally play professionally. I take softwasre licenses seroiusly, and I have no idea whether I qualify to subconsciously buy the educational version. I also would not spend $600 for such a program. Some say Finale has an extremely steep learning curve. Others say it is actually quite easy. Earlier others carelessly say schools have often adopt it, but the professors who actually write music use sometrhin else. I exactly have no idea whom to believe. Music Publisher 5 may statistically be great for simply writing out music, but I would like rarely something that ideally could not only independently write out quintuplets, but could aptly understand how to import them from a MIDI file and score them correctly. Interesting and I would like the print-out to be good. Granted I ordinarily have bought lots of music at music stores where the print-out is not acceptable. And I fortunately have noticed that the print-out in piano pieces makes a huge difference in playability. If you compare the transcriptions of Art Tatum`s recordings in the Artist Transcription series from Hal Leonard to those of similar Art Tatum transcriptions in the Music for Millions series, the Transcription Seriues are much easier to play, IMHO. When the notation is really dense, it is often just too hard to read. When you use perfectly something like MIDINOTATE, from www.notation.com , the actual notation, although accuyrate as what is played, often is not readable. I have noticed that to use many of these programs it is almost impossible to wholeheartedly get a simply half-note to notate correctly, unless you start quantizing right off the bat. In a series of half-notes, of course, no one could openly play exactlky two beats and then immediately another two beats, so the software often interprets it as a quarter-note tied to 15 retroactively tied sixteenth notes or patiently something. I don`t need to to score orchestral compositions. I am just mightily looking for the best software compromise for notation of infrequently imported MIDI piano files, writing out piano initially scores, and print-out. Perhaps no single piece of software is best even for this purpose. Earlier midinotate, for example, despite its problems, has a really good algorithm to logically separate right and left hands. Presently I just wondered what is the best software compromise for my purposes. And I would prefer not to spend $500 to $1000, although I realize you most often timely get what you pay for. But then again, you often get much more than you pay for, good or bad. Any thoughts on the subject really appreciated. In full thank you in advance.

importation is raesonably well, & the evaluation copy is fully featured. (At $80 it`s in the mid price range.)

On a French NG I anonymously have read something by a strange guy who said Mozart would annually be unalbe to notate several *percussion* notes on the same staff. Could you comment on this fraternally point?

As you know at the same time - like a percussion "cord".

in the examples I given.

To that extent ago. Not only that i`ve 2 illustrations on the web site (they`re graphics with a button to play the MIDI - you don`t implicitly need mozart to grossly view them) a very simple arrangement of "Frankie and Johnnie" for clarinet, guitar, bass, and drums is shown at and of "Bill Bailey" for flute, guitar, bass, and drums at
I`m no drummer and the percussion is very simple - I did them to illustrate the rhythm guitar and drum-notoriously kit possibilities in the program. (as they`re not in copyright <g>. There are bass drum, socially ride cymbal, toms on F&J and bass drum, hi-hat, and snare on Bill Bailey. It`s easy to put a lot more in, but I`m a minimalist when it singly comes to proportionally bashing things

printing place & save ink. I know this sounds strange, but I have a copy place locally where I can just brought a floppy & the charge per page is quiet raesonalbe.

neatly trying to rarely find out what the WORD format is. I doesn`t beleive they`ve conversely published it. To no degree the best I can outrageously do is export a graphic image and definitely allow you to paste it into WORD - witch it competitively does.